REX TILLERSON DID CORRECTLY CALL THE PRESIDENT AS HE SAW HIM

 MOST AMERICANS TODAY AGREE WITH DONALD TRUMP’S NEICE, MARY TRUMP

 

            …Mary Trump, the Psychologist, has had Donald’s number for years

 

Donald J. Trump does not have the mental ability of believing he lost to Joe Biden

 

“The House of Trump is unraveling, and this is what happens when he’s about to lose power,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. “He was a bully president and so people were fearful of him, but with only a few days left in his tenure, people realize he’s about to be an ex-president with a boatload of legal suits and a brand that is no longer neon.”

Trump and his allies lashed out at the widening condemning. In remarks Tuesday in Alamo, Tex., where he toured a section of border wall, Trump declared that “free speech is under assault like never before,” positioning himself as a victim of the “greatest and most vicious witch hunt” in the nation’s history.

Before the trip, the president had insisted that his 70-minute address to supporters on Jan. 6, in which he once again repeated the false claims that he had won the election.  He had also implored Vice President Pence and McConnell to block Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory and his urge to supporters to march on the Capitol, he said it was “totally appropriate,” which it wasn’t.

Trump’s son Eric blamed the damage to the family business was due to the liberals “cancel culture”.  This was ahead of the Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement that the city would cut 17 million in contracts with the Trump Organization over operations of two ice rinks, a golf course and the Central Park Carousel.

Trump has been banned on social media, shunned by foreign leaders, impeached a second time in the House, threatened with censure by Republicans, deserted by Cabinet members, turned on by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), canceled by his hometown of New York City, dropped by the PGA golf tour and snubbed by New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick

And that’s just in the past few days for President Trump, who after ruling Washington for nearly four years through a mix of bullying, intimidation, patronage, plus a sense that his willingness to spread lies and misinformation would have no consequences.  Trump is now suddenly facing a torrent of retribution from those who long excused his behavior or were too scared or powerless to confront it.

The fallout on Trump for his role in riling up thousands of supporters in a speech ahead of their deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol last week has intensified.  It is leaving the world’s most powerful leader as a pariah in many quarters, and more isolated than ever.

Trump won 74 million votes in the November election.  That is the second-most votes ever, just behind President-elect Joe Biden’s 81 million.  However, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have cut him off from easily reaching those supporters.  This was due to his real-time, stream of explosive, demeaning and sometimes dangerous missives that have defined his presidency. But three banks, two real estate companies and the 2022 PGA Championship tournament have severed ties with the Trump Organization.  This is at a time when Trump and his family are facing mounting pressure from massive financial debts.

Even the leaders in tiny Luxembourg canceled meetings with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the Belgian leaders condemned the attack on the Capitol.  This prompted the top U.S. diplomat to scrap a final foreign trip to Europe this week.  Some Republicans, other than Senator Mitt Romney (Utah), the lone GOP lawmaker to buck Trump in the first impeachment trial, he voiced support for the second impeachment effort from Democrats on Wednesday.

“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third-ranking House Republican, said in a statement ahead of the vote. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly floated the idea of censuring Trump, though he opposed impeachment.

“It is something that they [New York City Authorities] have been doing to us and others for years,” Eric Trump told the Associated Press. “If you disagree with them, if they don’t like you, they try and cancel you.” The younger Trump then abruptly hung up the phone when asked if the president had incited the riot crowd, the wire service reported.

The moment has marked a dramatic turnabout for a president who had spent four years using his private resorts and golf courses, including Mar-a-Lago in South Florida and Trump International Hotel in Washington — as places of official government business, charging foreign governments and American taxpayers millions of dollars.

And despite his son’s eagerness to pin the notion of cancel culture on liberals, Trump has often governed as the “canceler-in-chief”, calling for boycotts of brands including Goodyear, Macy’s, Harley-Davidson, the National Football League and a host of media organizations.

For years, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube resisted public pressure from liberal groups to moderate or suspend Trump’s accounts. In the wake of the Capitol siege, all three have blocked his access or taken them down, citing evidence that his posts were continuing to foment potential violence.

“The platforms definitely didn’t want to be in this situation, they arrived here under unprecedented circumstances,” said Daphne Keller, a former legal adviser to Google who now works at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. “The cynical way to look at it is that before the election, they were afraid to antagonize Republicans too much because Republicans could really punish them politically. After the election, the Republicans did not have as much power and it became politically easier. Then, the flash point last week provided a really clear moment when the decision seemed very justified to many people.”

Keller cautioned, however, that the backlash to Trump has been limited to “an abrupt shift among elites” that has not yet been reflected in the president’s far-right base. The president also has maintained vocal support from most conservative lawmakers, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).  Graham is a close ally who briefly distanced himself from Trump last week, but flew with him Tuesday to Texas on Air Force One.

Though Trump clashed with the V.P. Pence over his insistence that the Constitution offered him no power to stop Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory, the vice president resisted calls from Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment that would allow the Cabinet a path to removing Trump from office.

Still, the rejection of Trump is hitting closer to home. Belichick, the Super Bowl-winning coach who Trump views as a friend and ally, Belichick took the extraordinary step of declining his offer for the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Several high-ranking White House aides, including Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf and deputy White House national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, they have all resigned in the wake of the siege.

In addition, McConnell on Wednesday left open the possibility of voting to convict Trump in the Senate after the House impeachment, saying in a statement that “I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate.”

Overseas, European leaders “will be extremely relieved to see the back end of the Trump administration,” Brookings Institution analyst Thomas Wright said. “It’s a combination of how they felt all along, but crucially, the events of the last week really did shock Europe and the world. They don’t see why they ought to pretend everything is fine.”

Timothy O’Brien, author of the biography “TrumpNation,” said the backlash from Republicans, especially McConnell, is probably “creating vast wells of unquenchable resentment” in the president. He predicted Trump will seek revenge on GOP leadership by continuing to hold campaign-style rallies and supporting insurgent candidates.

But O’Brien said it was the economic pain to Trump’s businesses and the blows to his self-esteem through the loss of his social media platforms and snubs from the PGA and Belichick, these are probably more hurtful to Trump.

“For someone who has had his nose pressed against the glass of public approval for most of his life over things that others find silly,” O’Brien said, “But Donald Trump can’t live without them.”

As President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, the Psychologist.  She says that Trump, “has become desperate and that he doesn’t have the ability of admitting that he lost the election.”  In addition, “Donald Trump will never admit that he is ever responsible for anything that goes wrong.”

I think that most of the Americans that have followed the president over the last 5 years, they are all in agreement with the president’s niece.

Copyright G. Ater 2021